Ah, but that isn't totally the case. Mailshots are usually produced with a
scanned signature, or with a signature sometimes created with a "signing
machine". That signature is accessible to all who manipulate the documents
on their way to products, and is often stored as "bill_signature.bmp" or
something similar.
The DVLA stores your signature electronically for your driving licence and
displays it on it
The Passport People do the same though I think do not display it
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[mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Donald Henderson
Sent: Tuesday, February 17, 2004 8:47 AM
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Subject: Re: [data-protection] Query - Signature as Personal data
Even pre-Durant, it's very unlikely that a the signature would have been
part of an accessible record - unless someone was odd enough to file it
under your personal identifier !
Donald Henderson
Information Security Manager
Perth & Kinross Council
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From: davidwyatt [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
Sent: 17 February 2004 00:04
To: [log in to unmask]
Subject: [data-protection] Query - Signature as Personal data
For observations / comment
1: Is a persons signature personal data ? Pre Durrant based on the DP
Acts definition I would have argued yes..
2: Post Durrant is it still personal data when collected and processed
in the following context?.
Your employer asks you to provide it for the first time as a data item
for a 'contacts schedule' held as a page within a contract they are
entering into with a third party service supplier?
As a consequence your personal signature will then be in the possession
of both your employer (arguably for a staff admin use) and the third
party service supplier (DPA purpose unclear). Your employer is likely to
have had a copy when you were first employed on your application form
and on many other documents subsequently e.g. paper memos. Leaving aside
DPA an Employers strict duty of confidence on employment records would
have appeared to give its use by the employer's employees some legal
protection.
Given Durrant ruling does DPA apply at all to your signature as a datum
and if not does either party have any defined security obligation at law
to protect it from misuse? If so what law? e.g Anyone with any
obligation to protect a signature from fraudulent use other than the
individual themselves.
Views?
David Wyatt
Just had this occured and trying to point out the correlation of
signature to DPA compliance given it is still only another item of
personal data.
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